Microsoft Teams Settlement Offer Ends EU Abuse Probe (1)

Microsoft Corp. avoided a hefty antitrust penalty after the European Union accepted its commitments to settle a probe into the alleged illegal bundling of its Teams video-conferencing app.

Microsoft’s promise to carve out Teams from its hugely popular Office packages allayed competition concerns, EU regulators said in a statement Friday. The move comes after rivals and customers raised no serious objections in a market test.

The decision is likely to hand some respite in fraught EU-US relations following President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Brussels’ crackdown on Silicon Valley. The EU fined Alphabet Inc.’s Google almost €3 billion ($3.5 ...